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OWN’s iced Michael Sam docu-series, resuscitated as a documentary, has been given an airdate: December 27 at 9 PM ET. The 90-minute special follows Sam — the first openly gay football player drafted into the NFL. The Untitled Michael Sam Project was announced with great fanfare in May; OWN would partner with Pilgrim…

On The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart noted Michael Sam is historically one step closer to becoming the only openly gay man to play a regular season NFL game when he advanced to the St. Louis Rams 75-man roster. He cut to ESPN’s shower-by-shower coverage of Sam at Rams camp earlier in the week, in which…

Saturday Night Live cold-opened its 39th season finale riffing on the security video of Jay-Z and Solange duking it out in an elevator, providing a “soundtrack” revealing that Solange was just trying to brush a spider off the mogul rapper’s  jacket. Even with the delicious Maya Rudolph showing up as Beyonce, it was…

Two days after Oprah Winfrey's OWN announced a docu-series about Michael Sam, the first openly gay football player to be drafted into the NFL, the network is putting the project on hold. "After careful consideration and discussion with the St. Louis Rams, The Untitled Michael Sam Project has been postponed, allowing…

Oprah Winfrey’s OWN is partnering with Pilgrim Studios and filmmaker Amy Rice to produce The Untitled Michael Sam Project (working title), a multi-part original documentary series about Michael Sam, the first openly gay football player to be drafted into the NFL. The series takes a deeply personal, up-close look at…

Two days of the NFL Draft, fueled by lingering suspense over who would draft a controversial former Heisman Trophy winner and the league’s first openly gay recruit, proved more than enough to dominate the week’s Twitter TV audiences, according to Nielsen. Twitter TV ratings measure the size of the online audience…

EXCLUSIVE: Ross Katz, who produced The Laramie Project and the superb HBO pic Taking Chance, has signed on to write Out At Home: The Glenn Burke Story. He joins Juma Entertainment’s Jamie Lee Curtis and Robert Horowitz as producers of the film that tells the story of Los Angeles Dodgers and Oakland A’s player Burke…